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<img align="left" alt="PmWiki" src="/plugins/core/icons/32/wiki.png" />
Wiki-based markup is a means of creating formatted text using a plain text 
field. To apply this formatting you will utilize the Wiki-based formatting 
syntax described in this help manual. If you have used a Wiki system in the 
past, many of these tags may be familiar to you. Direct HTML formatting is 
usually not allowed and will be stripped out of your text input if used.
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<img align="left" alt="PmWiki" src="/plugins/core/images/pmwiki-32.gif" />
The Wiki-formatting engine used in this software is named 
<a href="http://www.pmwiki.org" target="newWindow">PmWiki</a>, created by 
<a href="http://www.pmichaud.com" target="newWindow">Patrick Michaud</a> and 
released under the terms of the 
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html" taget="newWindow">General Public License</a>. 
A majority of the documentation provided in this help manual has been copied 
(with permission of the <i>PmWiki</i> project) directly from the <i>PmWiki</i> 
online documentation located 
<a href="http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/DocumentationIndex#using" target="newWindow">here</a></p>

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<p>You can use the 
<a href="#" onclick="OS.launchWindow('core', 'WikiSandbox')">Wiki Sandbox</a> 
to experiment with any of the Wiki markup syntax described in this documentation.</p>

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This help manual is divided into two main sections:
<ol>
<li><a href="#" onclick="OS.getWindowInstance(this).getManager().displayArticle('beginnerTopics')">Beginner Topics</a>: 
Basic topics related to the Wiki syntax including basic editing examples and 
formatting rules</li>
<li><a href="#" onclick="OS.getWindowInstance(this).getManager().displayArticle('intermediateTopics')">Intermediate Topics</a>: 
More advanced Wiki syntax topics including 2 methods for creating and 
manipulating tables, Wiki Styles, and how to insert user specific variables into 
your markup</li>
</ol>
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